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Page 30
... hang many persons , even myself , or take vengeance on your worship . " Carlos was silent as if in a reverie . At last he said : 66 But if affairs are like this , it would be well to have one more with us . The caballero , my cousin ...
... hang many persons , even myself , or take vengeance on your worship . " Carlos was silent as if in a reverie . At last he said : 66 But if affairs are like this , it would be well to have one more with us . The caballero , my cousin ...
Page 34
... hanging was a danger so recondite , and an eventuality so extravagant , as to make the whole thing ridiculous . And yet I remembered how unhappy I felt , how inexplicably unhappy . Presently the reason was made clear . I was homesick ...
... hanging was a danger so recondite , and an eventuality so extravagant , as to make the whole thing ridiculous . And yet I remembered how unhappy I felt , how inexplicably unhappy . Presently the reason was made clear . I was homesick ...
Page 37
... hang him , or work some devil's mischief . You do not know that Irish judge — the canaille , the friend of priests . " " He is very brave . He will not fear , " Carlos said . I came suddenly forward . " I will not go with you , " I said ...
... hang him , or work some devil's mischief . You do not know that Irish judge — the canaille , the friend of priests . " " He is very brave . He will not fear , " Carlos said . I came suddenly forward . " I will not go with you , " I said ...
Page 47
... hang El Demonio . • " " The Government had sent out one of Nelson's old captains , Ad- miral Rowley , a good fighting man ; but when it came to clearing the Gulf of Mexico , he was about as useless as a prize - fighter trying to clear a ...
... hang El Demonio . • " " The Government had sent out one of Nelson's old captains , Ad- miral Rowley , a good fighting man ; but when it came to clearing the Gulf of Mexico , he was about as useless as a prize - fighter trying to clear a ...
Page 48
... hanging over a sea of squares of the green cane , alternating with masses of pimento foliage . Macdonald's wife was an im- mensely stout , raven - haired , sloe - eyed , talkative body , the most motherly woman I have ever known — I ...
... hanging over a sea of squares of the green cane , alternating with masses of pimento foliage . Macdonald's wife was an im- mensely stout , raven - haired , sloe - eyed , talkative body , the most motherly woman I have ever known — I ...
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Page 41 - Here's the mahn ye were speerin' after. Here's Macdonald." It was the voice of Barnes, and the voice of the every day. I discovered that I had been tremendously upset. The pulses in my temples were throbbing, and I wanted to shut my eyes — to sleep! I was tired; Romance had departed. Barnes and the Macdonald he had found for me represented all the laborious insects of the world; all the ants who are forever hauling immensely heavy and immensely unimportant burdens up weary hillocks, down steep...